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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marion Maneker

My books:

Dressing in the Dark: Lessons in Men's Style from the Movies
is a look at classic movie stars and their clothes.

My articles:

Art Market

Point. Click. Sell. ~ Photography Week, April
Indian Art Emerges ~ South Asian Modern and Contemporary Sales
Cranach on the Block ~ Old Master on Sale @ Christie's
Asian Art Monsoon ~ Contemporary Asian Art @ Sotheby's
A Volatile Market Sobers Up ~ Contemporary Wrap Up
London's Grand Finale ~ Contemporary Preview
Mondrian in the Market ~ A Sales History
London Sales Wrap-Up ~ February 2008 auctions
Fauvism is the New Impressionism ~ New York Magazine
The Age of Sale ~ Maritime Art @ Christie's
New Life for Old Masters ~ Old Master Drawings and Painting
Honey, Please Use a Coaster ~ Americana Week highlights
London Wares Visit New York ~ Sotheby's Previews London in New York

2007

Christie's Expands Interiors ~ New Initiative from the Auction House
Heading South ~ Art Basel Miami preview on Portfolio.com
Topping Off Sales with Phillips Auction Week wrap-up (11/07)
Last Night @ Christie's ~ Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Sale
The Big Picture at Sotheby's ~ Sotheby's Stock Price and the Art Market
Battle of the Rothkos ~ Contemporary Preview
Two Impressions of One Market ~ Impressionist & Modern Preview
Watching Paint Fry ~ New York Magazine profile of Kim Heirston
Rare Turner Hits the Market ~ Bamborough Castle Emerges after 118 Years
Heads Will Roll: Christie's Faces in Art ~ Auction preview (10/07)
London Falling ※ Contemporary sales, London (10/07)
Asian Art Standing Apart ※ Contemporary Chinese, New York (9/07)
Asian Art Arrives ※ Asian Art, New York (9/07)
Mid-Season Sunrise ※ Contemporary Art, New York (9/07)
A Scottish Corner of the Art Market ※ Scottish Art, Gleneagles (8/07)
London Market Surprises ※ Market Wrap-Up, London (6/07)
Bringing the Bacon, Again ※ London Preview (6/07)
Last Stop: London Auctions ※ London Preview (6/07)
Art as an Investment Class Warhol vs. The Dow
Contemporary Art Leads the Pack ※ Contemporary sales, New York (5/07)
A Week of Rocketing Sales ※ Contemporary sales, New York (5/07)
Rothko and Bacon Sell High ※ Contemporary sales, New York (5/07)
A Sober Night at Christie’s ※ Impressionist and Modern art, New York (5/07)
Sotheby’s Surprises ※ Impressionist and Modern art, New York (5/07)
Modern Masters Before the Sale ※ Spring preview, New York (5/07)
Ready for the Record Breaking ※ Spring preview, New York (5/07)
Rapid Gainers Set to Soar in Price ※ Art Market preview, New York (5/07)
How Hot Can the Art Market Get? ※ Art Market preview, New York (5/07)
Art Market Shifts with Players ※ Hedgies and the Art market (5/07)

Early Bids ※ auction preview (5/04)
Modern Love ※ auction report (11/02)
The Double Dealer ※ New York magazine (uncredited co-author) (8/01)

The People v. A. Alfred Taubman
The Bell Tolls for Taubman
The Secret Life of Al Taubman
Stars and (Maybe) Stripes

Steve McQueen’s Ferrari
Snapping Up the Bullitt

Helmut Newton
The Photographer Who Brought Sexy Back

Profiles:
Fareed Zakaria
James Wolcott
Tom Valenti
Phyllis Grann
Takashi Murakami
Prosper Assouline
Marcia Kilgore

Stories:
Moving to the Suburbs
Sailing in Newport

Submitted by Marion Maneker on Sat, 10/20/2007 - 5:24pm.

MY PUBLISHING

The Age of Sale

Christie's is selling Maritime art this week. When you look into it, there's more than just a few knick-knacks from old ships knocking around this corner of the collecting world.

Read my story here.

Submitted by Marion Maneker on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 11:00am.

Old World and New

The new year starts with a bang in the auction world with back to back weeks of Americana sales and Old Master Drawings and Paintings.

Read the stories and let me know what you think.

Submitted by Marion Maneker on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 2:02pm.

London Wares Visit New York

Sotheby's has a travelling exhibition promoting the highlights of next month's Impressionist and Modern paintings sale in London. See my preview here

Submitted by Marion Maneker on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 8:25pm.

Christie's Expands Interiors

Not the most earth shattering news. But it is interesting that Christie's--in the midst of the greatest boom in the art market ever--is pushing ahead in what the trade calls the "middle market." That's the so-called affordable stuff to mere mortals.

Read my story in the New York Sun here.

Submitted by Marion Maneker on Fri, 12/07/2007 - 12:58pm.

Is Art Basel Miami the new Woodstock for the Rich?

Just in time for the opening of the art world's Christmas party to itself, Portfolio.com has published my preview of the fair.

Submitted by Marion Maneker on Thu, 12/06/2007 - 12:35pm.

Topping Off Sales with Phillips

The dust settles on auction week with a final report on the market--and the sale at Phillips. Read it here.

Submitted by Marion Maneker on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 7:12pm.

Last Night at Christie's

The Contemporary Art market made a strong showing at Christie's last night. Here's my report. More later in the week.

Submitted by Marion Maneker on Wed, 11/14/2007 - 11:03am.

Battle of the Rothkos

Sotheby's has been weak in Contemporary art for several seasons. But now, when they need it most, the auction house has its strongest Contemporary sale in years. Christie's and Sotheby's are battling it out with comparable works by Rothko, Basquiat and Koon. Read the preview here.

Submitted by Marion Maneker on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 10:22am.

Strength in the Market

Everybody is anticipating a fall in art prices but last night's sales at Christie's showed surprising strength.

Here's a brief report from the New York Sun.

Submitted by Marion Maneker on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 9:19am.

Two Impressions of the Same Market

Just as the credit crisis re-emerges, the Autumn Auction season is getting underway. Here is a preview of the Impressionist and Modern art sales at Christie's and Sotheby's. The sales take place Tuesday and Wednesday evening.

Until then, take a look at the two very different ways each house sees the Impressionist and Modern market going published in the New York Sun today.

Submitted by Marion Maneker on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 12:55pm.

Watching Paint Fry

The art market is at the height of an unprecedented boom. Paintings that once cost $1 million are now $10 million and the rise is all about new collectors with very deep pockets. But how do those collectors get into the notoriously closed and condescending art world? Why, they hire an art adviser.

This profile of Kim Heirston appears in this week's New York Magazine.

Submitted by Marion Maneker on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 8:41am.

Warhol vs. The Dow

Sometimes the best stories come from a stray question. That's what happened here when an editor at the NY Sun asked how a Warhol painting had compared to the Dow as an investment. In a few rare cases, the paintings beat some pretty sophisticated investors.

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Posted in Submitted by Marion Maneker on Wed, 10/03/2007 - 12:32pm.